"From the beginning, we saw that the thesauri we knew did not solve our specific needs, which is why we decided to create one again: the need to organize and interpret the material, which at first seemed technical And even boring, was the basis of our project.That was when the responsibility for its elaboration was taken up by the whole group of researchers, not to choose and classify words that would name the historical experiences of women Catalonia from the 9th to the 18th centuries, but to design, from the diversity of our experiences, semantic fields and concrete terms of an own language that gave meaning and meaning to the lives of women of the past and of history. Collective needs, converting an amalgam of personal needs into a common desire to make the world. The process of realizing the thesaurus has been Complex and enriching, sometimes harsh, in the sense that it has meant, at least for some of the women we have participated in, a rethinking of our being in history and in the world in political relation with other women, and not just as historians . The work, which originally emerged as a group work, became a work of relationship, through the discussion of individual knowledge and proposals with the rest of the team. We started the thesaurus by creating semantic fields and concepts from criticism to androcentric history, especially from the study of gender relations, in which the past and present social subordination of women is revealed and denounced, and a critical reconstruction is made Of social relations between the sexes, as defined by the patriarchal symbolic order. In this way, we defined a large section of our thesaurus that we call 'patriarchal order'. We did it relatively quickly, since we all knew too well 'the master's house', but arguing a lot, given the diversity of our analyzes and our experiences. 1420 terms.
It arose from the need that the specialists in women's history felt - and felt - to be able to count on the basic instruments of work to develop more rigorously our research, and to guide the historians and historians interested in the subject.